Posted on 09/17/2012 9:56:05 AM PDT by indpndtguy
CAIRO—Ambassador Chris Stevens was still breathing when Libyans stumbled across him inside a room in the American embassy in Benghazi, pulled him out and drove him to a hospital after last week’s deadly attack in the eastern Libyan city, witnesses told the Associated Press on Monday.
Fahd al-Bakoush, a freelance videographer, was among the Libyan civilians searching through the embassy after gunmen and protesters rampaged through it last Tuesday night. Al-Bakoush said he heard someone call out that he had tripped over a dead body.
A group of people gathered as several men pulled the seemingly lifeless form from the room. They saw he was alive and a foreigner, though no one recognized him as Stevens, al-Bakoush said.
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He was breathing and his eyelids flickered, he said. “I tested his pulse and he was alive,” he said “No doubt. His face was blackened and he was like a paralyzed person.”
Video taken by al-Bakoush and posted on YouTube shows Stevens being carried out of a small dark room through a window with a raised shutter and being laid on the floor. One man touches his neck to feel for a pulse. Some of the men shout, “God is great.”
The video has been authenticated since Stevens’ face is clearly visible and he is wearing the same white t-shirt seen in authenticated photos of him being carried away one another man’s shoulders, presumably moments later. Two colleagues of al-Bakoush who also witnessed the scene confirmed that he took the footage.
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Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the consulate, part of a wave of assaults on U.S. diplomatic missions in Muslim countries over a low-budget movie made in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
The accounts of all three witnesses mesh with that of the doctor who treated Stevens that night. Last week, the doctor told The Associated Press that Stevens was nearly lifeless when he was brought by Libyans, with no other Americans around, to the Benghazi hospital where he worked. He said Stevens had severe asphyxia from the smoke and that he tried to resuscitate him with no success. Only later did security officials confirm it was Stevens.
A freelance photographer who was with al-Bakoush at the scene, Abdel-Qader Fadl, said Stevens was unconscious and “maybe moved his head, but only once.”
Ahmed Shams, a 22-year-old arts student who works with the two, said the group cried out “God is great” in celebration after discovering he wasn’t dead. “We were happy to see him alive. The youth tried to rescue him. But there was no security, no ambulances, nothing to help,” he said.
The men carried Stevens to a private car to drive him to the hospital since there was no ambulance, all three witnesses said.
I heard cheering from the crowd after they put him on the ground, and at one point, it appears that the guy on the right kicks the body. I’m sure he was kicked by more than just this guy, but it was night, so visibility is bad. We’ll probably never see the autopsy report, but I’ll bet it will show kicks to the ribs.
I haven’t seen any videos just a couple photographs. Stevens appears to be dead in both photos, this seems for sure, and we see dozens taking photos of him. And if I’m not mistaking, he’s partially naked from the waist down in one of the photos?
But lets assume that the doctor’s story is correct, that he tried to resuscitate Stevens and that Stevens spoke to him. If true, then
1. Stevens was alive and carried to the hospital by a group trying to help him.
2 or did the mob take Steven’s body from the hospital after the doctor saw him and drag it through the streets?
or
Is the doctor a liar?
Yanking him around like a trophy.
Oh yeah, like the Palestinians celebrated the survivors of 9/11.
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...The night Obama burned the Reichstag down ...We will have these moments to remember |
Like Bob Woodward got that deathbed confession from William Casey?
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Obama still has enough people to vote him back into office, despite his many failures.
I agree with your post, but you probably meant to say "antipathy" or I would say "pathological hatred"
The very first picture that came out showed one guy holding him under the arms (had a cell phone in his mouth) but another guy off camera yanking his right arm. The caption was “Libyans trying to help the ambassador”. But you don’t help by yanking on his arm. Also his pocket was turned inside out. You don’t help by searching the victim’s pockets. I suppose our State Dept would argue they were looking for an allergy card.
“Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the consulate, part of a wave of assaults on U.S. diplomatic missions in Muslim countries over a low-budget movie made in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.”
The “big lie” continues.
“Libyans stumbled across him inside a room in the American embassy in Benghazi, pulled him out and drove him to a hospital”
What a bunch of BS! We have seen those lunatics taking him out of the building and having a damned good time doing it. I doubt very seriously they drove him to a hospital unless it was for COVERING their butts.
I’m sick of the lies especially from so called news organizations. They can’t stop people from getting the truth now no matter how hard they try. It just isn’t working for them any longer.
kicks to the ribs is muslim cpr, when administered to infidels
Not dead. Not even unconscious. Dead people don’t hold their own head up. He was in shock and probably having trouble breathing.
I saw the same thing, the guy on the right kick his body.
Perhaps this is what the mooslimbs call “saving” a life.
The Toronto Star watched the same video and read the same comments we all did which was reported from breitbart - none of it matched what must of us saw.
It’s difficult to believe they wrote a story based on a translation by some anonymous person on youtube. They’re desperate.
See the video posted above by tina07.
Sure looks like a flashmob at best, and sure looks like they are cheering because he’s dead. No signs whatsoever of care or concern for someone who has been hurt.
***I wanted to believe the video is showing locals trying to help the Ambassador.
Now I clearly see in video that his belt is fastened. Later in picture his belt is undone. Our US Ambassador raped, I’m thinking no doubt.***
So CPR in the ME involves pulling the victim’s pants down? This is nothing but a fantasy story being handed to the press for distribution. Anyone that doesn’t believe this fairy tale will be ridiculed and called a racist.
If this were a movie it would be totally unbelievable, but it is really happening, and the scary, really scary thing is the man directing all these lies has his finger on hundreds of nuclear weapons.
No doubt he was breathing when they found him. It was when the first group of the ROP left that he was at death's door.
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